. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . S OF ARMINIAN METHODISM. BY REV. S. COMFORT. The Difficulties of Arminian Methodism, embracing strictures on the writings ofWesley, l)rs. Clarke, Fisl; Ban^s, and others, in a series of letters, addressedto the Rev. By Wm. Annan. The above is the title of a work which recently fell into our hands,purporting to be a third edition revised and enlarged from the second;printed in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1838. *In running over the list of recommendations, we found the namesof the Rev. Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., and the Rev. G. , of Balt
. The Methodist magazine and quarterly review . S OF ARMINIAN METHODISM. BY REV. S. COMFORT. The Difficulties of Arminian Methodism, embracing strictures on the writings ofWesley, l)rs. Clarke, Fisl; Ban^s, and others, in a series of letters, addressedto the Rev. By Wm. Annan. The above is the title of a work which recently fell into our hands,purporting to be a third edition revised and enlarged from the second;printed in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1838. *In running over the list of recommendations, we found the namesof the Rev. Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., and the Rev. G. , of Baltimore; gentlemen known to us only by character,but for whom we have ever cherished sentiments of the highest esteemand the warmest friendship, both on account of their distinguishedtalents and their reputation for deep piety and profound the names of gentlemen thus distinguished among the en-dorsers for the author, and the work sent out into the world withtheir sanction, we were led to examine the table of contents with the. 320 Difficulties of Arminian Methodism. greater interest and attention. The work consists of eight letters,addressed to the Rev. , as in the title page. On further exa-mining the body of the work,—to which we were led more by thepromptings of mere curiosity than by any other motive,—we wereconstrained to admit that this is among the rare productions of thepresent age; and, to say the least, it does not want a high degree ofnovelty to recommend it, not only in view of the matter of the workitself, but also in respect to the authors style, argument, and mode ofillustration. In proposing a brief review, let us here apprize thereader that it is not our design to follow the writer in every turn andcrevice, into which, judging from the spirit and style of the work, heseems to have been led, in many instances, more from the predominantinfluence of a sort of petulent captiousness, than from a lofty principleof Christian liberality and candor.
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